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The State-of-the-Art Writing Project: A capstone writing project for engineering students

By rothm February 27, 2023 Uncategorized No Comments

Like many institutions, Lafayette College takes a “writing across the curriculum” approach to help students develop their writing skills. As part of the writing requirement, all students are required to…

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Managing an Engineering Capstone Project

By rothm January 3, 2023 Uncategorized No Comments

This spring semester I am teaching a section of my program’s capstone project course and I’ve been thinking about how best to structure the course. ABET (the organization that accredits…

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A thank you note to my students

By rothm June 16, 2022 Uncategorized No Comments

There’s been a lot written on students becoming disengaged and even dropping out as a result of the stresses they have experienced during the pandemic. The stresses on students have…

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A More Inclusive Approach to Academic Advising

By rothm April 20, 2021 Uncategorized 1 Comment

I recently finished reading Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal – it is an excellent book and I recommend it for anyone facing the potentially complicated situations that can occur as…

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What? So what? Now what?

By rothm July 18, 2018 Uncategorized No Comments

I spent last week as a mentor and facilitator for Project Kaleidoscope’s STEM Leadership Institute.  Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) is “AAC&U’s STEM higher education reform center dedicated to empowering STEM faculty,…

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My Bullet Journal has improved my relationship with time

By rothm June 20, 2016 Uncategorized 3 Comments

Over the last few years, I find that my relationship with time — specifically, my ability to find the time to do what I need to get done — has…

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That was fun! A reflection on being back in the classroom

By rothm January 20, 2016 Uncategorized No Comments

This past fall was my first time teaching in over nine years and I was assigned courses I had never taught before – it felt like I was once again…

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Improve Your Learning: Research Demonstrates Benefits of Reflection

By rothm June 3, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”  – John Dewey (Based on research reported in a working paper by Di Stefano, G., Gino, F., Pisano,…

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Thoughts on Mentoring

By rothm June 3, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

(From a 200 words or less mentoring statement I was asked to provide for AAC&U’s 2015 PKAL Summer Leadership Institute for STEM Faculty) I value both sides of mentoring—learning from…

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Taking notes on an iPad

By rothm May 14, 2015 Uncategorized No Comments

I like taking notes on my iPad—I have had an iPad for a couple of years now and I find that by using a stylus, I can take handwritten notes…

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